Upper Level Lows & A Lesson In the Water Vapor Loop

What people don't understand is that the water vapor loop is like a crystal ball that shows you where the changes will be taking place. That is why Cantore shows them nonstop on The Weather Channel all the time.

Watch here...

Old Image from 12 hours ago. Just 12. A half a day past.



Notice there is practically no moisture anywhere across the SE USA. One dot in the Bahamas which is one pretty strong damn strong dot to even be on the map as everything else is darkly gray and murky! Out in the Atlantic is a sort of robust looking wave, circular and looking good. Not a lot of Upper Level Lows real visible if you don't look carefully. Not yet. Rain in Kansas.

Then... look at the current image which is at 9 PM Monday Night.



In twelve hours the rain in Kansas is gone.. it's made it's way all the way down through Georgia and into Northern Florida. It's on the Zoom Zoom Express Track. It's racing down the state of Florida with high pressure to it's north pushing down on it faster than a Haitian Jitney in Miami!!

Now notice the wave out in the Atlantic... suddenly there is a dark pit, black as the pit from pole to pole this pit opens up and swallows all the moisture from the neat little wave. You see?

Watch the loop...

http://weather.unisys.com/satellite/sat_wv_east_loop-12.html

Look at that upper level low just take over. Notice how moisture has cropped up all along the Pacific on either side of Central America. It is as if someone turned a switch on. See how suddenly it happens?

Amazing huh?

That's it! Bobbi's "Water Vapor Loops 101"

There are much better loops with more definition and color. Choose your favorite sat but for some reason I like the unisys, it's easier sometimes to see what is happening up the road in the NW part of America and down the road towards the Far Eastern Atlantic and with shades of gray and black and white there is less distraction with pretty colors or such as the JSL or the AVN.

The wave is still there. It hasn't developed but thunderstorms will develop tomorrow and over the weekend.

You have a frontal boundary sort of feature which is moving down the state of Florida. You have a westbound tropical wave and an upper level low stalking the poor little wave and everywhere the wave goes the upper level low is sure to go.

May I point out that upper level feature that was shearing the wave yesterday morning is gone, poof.. not even visible on the water vapor imagery.

I'm having a hard time in Miami this week.

Brett Favre went to the Jets. I wish he had come to Miami. No, now we will get to watch him play against us it seems. Deja Vu of Testaverde and a few other Miami greats we didn't snap up way back when. Manny Ramirez left the Red Sox and did NOT come to the Marlins. This has been bad. Really. Not sure what is left to root for in life. Green Bay is Favreless. Manny is gone. The Fins are opening tomorrow night on Tish B'Av (not one of the best Jewish holidays) which hopefully is not an omen for the season.

And, upper level lows have taken over the Atlantic.

Pic a Sat and Sit a Spell. Find one you like and you tell me what you think will happen.

http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/TROP/trop-atl.html

As for me. I am going to sit here and eat my tuna fish. It has fresh Maine Blueberries and Capers on Multi-Grain Pitas with lettuce. Hey, it's my tuna fish, get your own and make it your way. I'm sorry, I like things I can hold in my hand remember? And, I like chopped liver too! On a soft onion roll or in a cone! Life goes on you know?

It's not about Tuna or Capers (haha that's funny, go Rams!) and it's not about sports not really but it is about weather and whether or not we are going to see development in the next day or two or in a week or two.

MJO is moving into our Basin so get ready for some tropical brew in a week or two.
when I have my kids, my grandkids, my boyfriend, my daughters boyfriend and oh lord everyone coming in for the Labor Day Holiday for my nephew's Bar Mitzvah. Is there a tropical rock to hide under from a possible hurricane moving in too?

Stay tuned.. only time will tell and see it in a theater coming to you in 2010!

Is it just me or does this picture from Accuweather look a lot like Spiderman??



LOL... what a world and the world goes round and round



(gee I do remember old IMs.. nope, not doing Joni, not me... )

Sweet Dreams.. Bobbi